Welcome to the Hanover Bald Eagle cam in Codorus State Park Hanover in York County Pennsylvania. The eagles names are Freedom (male) and Liberty (Female)
Helpful ID guides below to tell them apart. This is the fifth season of nesting with the cams installed. Thanks to HDonTap for taking over the nest and setting up new cams to allow us to continue watching this nest.

Back on October 26th it was reported in the Evening Sun (https://www.eveningsun.com/story/news/2 ... 761778002/) the following: The Pennsylvania Game Commission is no longer overseeing the Hanover bald eagle cam that has monitored a pair of eagles — viewers have nicknamed them "Freedom" and "Liberty" — that live in Codorus State Park.

The commission held the permit to the livestream, so if another group wants to continue the livestream it would have to apply for a permit, said Travis Lau, the director of communications at the Pennsylvania Game Commission.

There are a few reasons that the PGC is discontinuing involvement with the eagle cam, according to Lau:

The tree that the nest is in has a crack. The nest has also cracked. So there is no telling the future of either.
The location of the tree and nest make it difficult to get access to the camera for maintenance.
The commission is short staffed and it takes resources to be educators about what goes on in the feed.

HDOntap has taken over the project and are setting up new cams. There will be a 4K cam, a POV cam and a one with IR. They are planning on going live Dec.3 2018!

4K view

POV cam view

IR cam view

"Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience" Ralph Waldo Emerson

This is the fifth season of this nest cam. This pair of bald eagles has made its home in Codorus State Park, just outside Hanover, in rural York County, Pennsylvania. They got their names through a contest where local people voted on names. Mom is Liberty and Dad is Freedom. They have been nesting in this tree for about 14 yrs now but there is not a lot of history on the nest before the camera was installed and started broadcasting in 2015. The nest is 75' up in an oak tree.

Watching the eagles is fun but sometimes it is hard to tell which one is which. Obviously the one that lays the egg is the female but after that it get hard to tell. Here are a few indicators to help you identify them. Even then it sometimes is hard. Females generally brood the eggs and eaglets over night. Our nest here is no different.

Dad or Freedom has a notch in his neck line, can be seen most of the time but not always. At the moment one of his center tail feathers is shorter causing a nice little indent in the tail arrangement. His wing tips or the primaries are shorter then Mom's and when crossed on the back do not extend to the tail.

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Mom or Liberty is larger as most females are. Her neckline can look straight but it has a little rise in the middle. Her wing tips almost touch the end of her tail and she doesn't always cross them.

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Liberty and Freedom

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Current Pictures of Freedom and Liberty's neck line for 2019

Freedom

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Liberty

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"Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience" Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are so excited to share the Hanover Eagle Nest Cameras with you tomorrow! This email will tell you How To See The Cams At Go-Live, Where To See The Cams, and How To Prepare For The Best Viewing Experience.

We can't wait to go live with you tomorrow!
Happy viewing, HDOnTap

How to see the live cameras
The live cameras will be available beginning at 12PM Eastern. You will need to refresh your browser to see the cameras if you are already on the page. If you do not see the cameras, we recommend performing a cache refresh - see instructions for your browser here.

Live Camera Pages
There are three viewing pages for Hanover:

Hanover Multicam Page
Comments: HDOnTap and Hawk Mountain will post announcements which users may comment on

Hanover POV Page
Comments: Open to all

Hanover IR Page
Comments: Open to all

While there are three Hanover pages, you will be able to view all three cameras on each of them thanks to our Multicam Player. To use the Multicam player, (1) click "Other Views" in the control bar, then (2) select the thumbnail of the camera you would like to play:

In addition, all information, history, time-lapses, and the clip gallery are available on all pages under the player. Time-lapse is only available for the POV and IR cams at this time

As in previous seasons, comments will be more heavily moderated once the cameras go live. We encourage you to review our Community Guidelines, which can be found on the camera pages.

how to prepare for the best viewing experience
These recommendations will help you have the best technical experience. Support for our most common viewer issues can be found here.

Make sure your browser is up-to-date. Check here.
While HDOnTap.com and our player are designed to work on all modern devices, it is recommended that you use Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox as your browser. Internet Explorer is not recommended and requires Flash.
If you are experiencing issues, clear your browser data.

If you experience issues with buffering:

Heavy usage on your device (including streaming multiple cams at once, having many tabs open or engaging in other bandwidth-heavy activity) may result in buffering.
Multiple people or devices on your network will impact the bandwidth available.
Get suggestions for troubleshooting buffering here.

Get support for issues with comments (including log in issues) by emailing [email protected].

The Hanover Bald Eagle Nest Cams are provided in collaboration with Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, a global leader in raptor conservation science and education, and Comcast Business, which is providing the Internet connectivity for the live broadcast.

"Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience" Ralph Waldo Emerson

As promised at noon the cams went live, I think, it took me about an hour to get one to come on. Lots of buffering. I was only able to get two of the tree to come on. The 4K is still a mystery to me as I write this.
Beautiful clear photos from both cams.

Will keep trying to get that third cam to come live.

Finally I tried Chrome, I ususally always use Firefox and on Chrome the 4K cam came up

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"Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience" Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good morning every one, Bonjour Lynne, Bev, Ferenz, … !
01h08 this is the message i got with Edge
"The media could not be loaded, either because the server or network failed or because the format is not supported."
So i return to my old Internet Explorer and as it says it won't work i could get these 3 pics… Very windy there !

E9: 3 yo. E14: 26 do forever.
One day in the wild is worth a lifetime in a cage. B.ShofstallRIP 2017-18-19-2020

Strange, today cam 2 and 3 work with Edge now, but not cam 1 and then after i select cam one, Black screen, same error message like ysesterday and impossible to have acces to cam 2 and 3, obliged to reload it and to select cam 2 and 3 as it is possible to do it (to avoid the black screen)

E9: 3 yo. E14: 26 do forever.
One day in the wild is worth a lifetime in a cage. B.ShofstallRIP 2017-18-19-2020

Bonjour and Good Morning Philjo, Bev, Fernez and all who love and watch this nest

Weather forecast for today

Hoping they can get the permissions on the 4K cam so Firefox will allow as well as Edge.. don't like having two browsers open at one time but for now it is ok. I hope Mr. Lucky the squirrel doesn't destroy this nest! But always nice to see our furry friends

"Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience" Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Hanover Eagles made their first nest visit since the cameras went live on Wednesday, 12/5/18, at approximately 10:40 AM Eastern Time. In this video, you can see the eagles in the "Sentinal Tree", flying around, and ultimately landing in the nest. The visiting squirrel narrowly missed their arrival!